Topic: [Linux] Desperately trying to connect Pianoteq with Musescore

Hello everybody

In a few days I am playing at a gig. For my piano sounds, I need a setup where musescore sends midi events to pianoteq via qjackctl.

- My Pianoteq plays fine through qjackctl.
- Musescore also plays fine (using the internal system synth)

HOWEVER when I try to transfer midi events from musescore to pianoteq via qjackctl, musescore just freezes!!

All my settings are displayed here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/267.../index.htm

Could anybody please help me connecting those two???

many thanks in advance

George

Re: [Linux] Desperately trying to connect Pianoteq with Musescore

I'm not all that familar with musescore, but I wonder if you could get musescore to output a midi file and then play that midi file in Pianateq.    There are a variety of ways to send the midi file data to pianoteq, either by directly loading the midi file in pianoteq or by playing the midi file in some other program and sending the midi to pianoteq such as kmid, audacious both of which support playlists to play a seriers of midifiles.

Re: [Linux] Desperately trying to connect Pianoteq with Musescore

I'm sorry but I had also a lot of problems with Musescore on Windows too... it doesn't seem to be very reliable. Yet. Let's hope for future versions...

Re: [Linux] Desperately trying to connect Pianoteq with Musescore

MuseScore for Mac seems to work pretty well for me, at least for notation editing (I only use the built-in soundfonts for listening). Never crashed as far as I remember, although some operations are pretty awkward at times...

Re: [Linux] Desperately trying to connect Pianoteq with Musescore

O.K. I tried a few things to connect Musescore to Pianoteq and could not make it work initially.  I was able to make it work by turning off Portaudio.  I am using KXStudio on Ubuntu 14.04, so it is simple  for me to turn off Portaudio using a program called Cadence.  If you don't have Cadence you could consider installing this program along with Catia and other tools by looking at KXStudio, though I do not know how this might or might affect your current setup.  Alternatively, you might try uninstalling portaudio from your computer, if you don't need it or maybe disabling it by killing the process, though I don't know if that will create other trouble.  From things I have read in the past, portaudio can be a problem in Linux audio.

All of that being said, there is another issue with Musescore where it does not play all of the notes through a midi connection, which happened to me when I got the midi connection working  This issue is discussed here:

www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=15&ved=0CHkQFjAO&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmusescore.org%2Fnode%2F22814&ei=a8u9VP2zGfiPsQTw44FA&usg=AFQjCNEM5UluvopUaqSw3xvfKY5WrvAsuw

As others have suggested, you may not want to use Musescore.  You could try Rosegarden if using musical notation is important to you as this program can work well with Pianoteq in my experience, though you might need the alsa midi bridge installed (a2jmidid) if you don't have that (i.e. Rosegarden outputs midi using ALSA and Pianoteq uses Jack Midi).

As another aside, if you are not running KXStudio, you might want to consider it as it is set up in a way that it overcomes a great many issues.

Re: [Linux] Desperately trying to connect Pianoteq with Musescore

Hi!

It seems that the problem was portaudio. inside MuseScore As soon as I disabled it in MuseScore preferences, pianoteq midi in could be selected in Jack Audio Server Ports as well as in the midi section of qjackctl.

Sο my setup is working! (with all the notes playing at least for the moment)

Listening to the advice of mwinthrop, I also had a look at Rosegarden. It is definatelly a more mature program (I could connect to pianoteq in a snap)

thank you all again